Brick two-flats and corner stores line the numbered grid, and Chicago P.D. filmed street scenes on Emerald and Lowe avenues.
What Bridgeport looks like
The streets run on a numbered grid. The South Branch of the Chicago River marks the north edge, with a canal continuing it west toward McKinley Park. Union Pacific tracks run the length of the east side, and the Dan Ryan Expressway cuts across the northeast corner.
Three storey brick corner buildings line Halsted Street's commercial strip, pressed metal bay windows and cast iron cornices over ground floor shops. The stands farther south on Halsted, its 1929 terra cotta front and marquee restored.
The side streets are mostly brick, one and a half storey bungalows with front dormers next to two-flat buildings with stone lintels. Low iron fences and small paved yards run along the sidewalk. A triangular brick building on 31st Street holds the Ling Shen Ching Tze Buddhist temple, its pointed corner unlike anything else on the block.
A five storey brick warehouse at 35th and Racine holds studio and gallery space as the , its ground floor lined with brick arches and a tall smokestack behind it. The canal is a block north, barges and truck yards along the bank and the downtown skyline visible across the water.
Shot in Bridgeport
The NBC series Chicago P.D. filmed street scenes here in January 2014. The production posted parking restrictions on both sides of 33rd Street between Emerald and Wallace avenues. It did the same on toward 3340 South Lowe.
Chicago P.D.
The production filmed on this block in January 2014, part of the same shoot that used Lowe Avenue a few blocks over. No source names a specific building or storefront the cameras used here, only the street itself.
Locust Point's brick rowhouses sit hard against the Baltimore harbor's working piers and rail spurs, much like the canal edge here. Most of the houses went up in the same 1880s to 1910s window as Bridgeport's own frame cottages and two-flats. Locust Point's rowhouses run in longer unbroken stretches than Bridgeport's mixed frame and brick blocks, so a tighter frame holds the match better. Try searching brick rowhouses harbor piers now.
Slavic Village in Cleveland, Ohio
Slavic Village's brick two-flats sit on a similarly tight grid with corner stores at the intersections, most of them built in the 1900s and 1910s. Cleveland's brick tends to run a shade darker red than Bridgeport's, so a corner storefront with fresh signage helps sell the match. Try searching brick two-flats corner stores now.
Bay View's cream city brick cottages and two-flats sit close to the old rolling mill site and the harbor rail line, a similar industrial edge to Bridgeport's canal. The scale is close too, mostly one and two storey buildings on narrow lots. The cream colored brick reads lighter than Bridgeport's red brick in wide shots, so a tighter frame or an overcast day helps hide it. Try searching cream brick cottages now.
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